Display-rack.



E. B WESTON.

DISPLAY RACK..

APPLICATION FILED MW-711915.v

Patented May 15, 1917.

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EDWARD B. WESTON, F DAYTON, OHIO.

DISPLAY-RAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1 .5, 1917.

Application filed April 7, 1915. Serial No. 19,784.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. WnsroN, a citizen of the United States, and a resldent of the city of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Racks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to display racks for use in advertising and exhibiting goods 1n stores and the like, and the object of the invention is to provide a rack carrying a blackboard and advertising matter on signs and on the shelf bands which can be readily and easily knocked down for shipment and storage, and which at the same time can be so folded as to completely protect the advertising plates and the display advertisements from becoming marred or scratched in shipment.

These objects I accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed, whereby in knockdown condition all of the display signs may be folded to expose only the back of the sign, or the advertising matter may be fully protected by the folded standards.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the rack when set up. 7 v

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same when folded or knocked down.

Fig. 3 is a detail section showing the shelf mounting.

Fig. 4: is a detail section showing, on a larger scale, the means for securing the side braces to the lower shelf.

The rack has standards 1, 2, 3 and 4, pivotally connected at the four corners of the narrow top shelf 5. Mounted fixedly on this top shelf so as to extend upwardly when the rack is set up is a blackboard or sign board 6, the-binding strip 7 of which is extended .down for purposes of attachment, the board being adapted to receive display matter on both sides.

The standards have outwardly turned feet 8, 8, which may be screwed to the floor if desired.

Secured across between the front standards 1 and 4 and the rear standards 2 and 3 are the sign boards 9 and 10 respectively, these boards serving as spacing members and to hold the said front and rear stand- K ards together.

The shelves 11 and 12, in graded sizes with the largest at the bottom, are pivotally secured at one side by means of rivets 13 passing through the side portions of the shelves, and secured in the rear standards 2 and 3. The shelf 11 turns downwardly to fold up and the shelf 12 turns upwardly, and when the rack is in use the shelves are to be secured to the front standards by means of removable bolts 14:, 14, so as to rigidly hold the rack in shape, and securely brace the parts thereof together.

The side braces 15, 16, are provided at each side of the rack, pivotally secured to the standards at 17, 17. Proper apertures are provided at the central portion of the lower shelf at each side, and bolts 18, 18, serve to secure these side braces at each side of the rack to the said lower shelf.

To knock down or fold up the rack when it is set up, the bolts 18, 18, are removed and the side braces folded up along the standards. The bolts 14, 14, are then removed and the shelves folded along the standards one up and the other down, as described heretofore. The standards are then brought upwardly so as to fold alongside of the upper blackboard 6, and the rack is completely folded into a narrow package, and thus the blackboard is completely protected by the standards at each side, The sign boards 9 and 10 are by this folding turned with their reverse sides outward and the shelf bands are also protected by the side standards, while the outer endsof the feet are turned toward each other, spacing apart the standards.

Details of construction mentioned without reference to equivalents throughout the description are not intended as limitations of the claims that follow.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a display rack, two pairs of side standards, sheets connecting and holding spaced apart the side standards of each pair, intermediate linking means to which the pairs of standards are independently secured adapted to permit the standards to swing in substantially a half circle thereon, and a frame rigidly secured to the intermediate linking means, whereby the side standards may be folded down to hold the frame up- 2. In a display rack, two pairs of side standards, sheets connecting and holding spaced apart the side standards of each pair, intermediate linking means to which the pairs of standards are independently secured adapted to permit the standards to swing in substantially a half circle thereon, and a I 10 frame rigidly secured to the intermediate linking means, whereby the side standards ma be folded down to hold the frame uprig t, or folded up to inclose the frame between the standards, said side standards having spacer members comprising shelves between the pairs, and means for removably securing said spacer shelves to the side standards of one pair.

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